Assuming fossil fuels are used to provide the energy input for shale oil production, the net greenhouse gas impact of developing oil shale resources can also be assumed to be substantially higher than the per - unit impact of conventional oil production. (theoildrum.com)
Further, there may be good reason for Munich Re to want to increase its rates, but making grossly unsound appeals to the spectre of greenhouse gas impacts on disasters in the near term will both harm its own credibility as a business, and potenially harm efforts to secure a global climate treaty, as overselling the science will inevitably result in a backlash. (climate-resistance.org)
Good luck on reducing greenhouse gas impacts without nuclear. (judithcurry.com)